Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has directed authorities of the Yola International Airport to commence full flight operations at the facility with the use of the newly-built terminal. She gave the order on Friday in Yola while inspecting the upgraded facilities at the airport. Oduah expressed satisfaction at the level of rehabilitation carried out at…
No fewer than four persons were feared dead on Saturday morning when the convoy of the deputy governor of Ondo State, Ali Olanusi, was involved in a fatal car crash. The deputy governor was said to have been on his way to a social function in Akure when the unfortunate incident happened along the Aponmu-Owena…
Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the wives of late MKO Abiola, has officially declared her intention to contest in the governorship election in Lagos State under Accord Party come 2015. Onitiri-Abiola, few days ago, expressed her desire to occupy the Lagos Government seat of power in 2015. She had then said she was consulting with…
Premium Times reports that the Presidency has mounted pressure on the Senate to stop the probe of missing N8 trillion oil funds leaked to the public recently. The report is reproduced below; The Nigerian Senate has come under intense pressure from the presidency, the petroleum ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to abandon…
One of the old generation banks in Nigeria, Wema Bank, is presently in a mess and the reason is not far-fetched. Workers of the bank at Iponri, Lagos branch are still finding it difficult to understand how the sum of N6.5 million belonging to the Lagos State government suddenly developed wings and flew away from…
Deposed Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi is due in court on charges of murder, days after he insisted he was the legitimate president at a separate hearing related to a prison break. According to state media, Morsi arrived at the police academy in Cairo on Saturday to face charges of inciting the killing of protesters near…
The ‘political porting’ happening in Nigeria has still not stopped as 16 local council chairmen in Kwara State announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday. They were also followed to their new party by their 194 Councillors. The decampees, under the Association of Local Governments…
Things are definitely not going well with popular actor, Emeka Ike and his wife, going by the latest information about them. In 2008, the couple established as secondary school in Magodo, Lagos called St Nicolas College. The institution has recently been marred with crisis over unpaid teachers’ salaries and withdrawal of some students from the…
**5-Month-Old Toddler Shot Dead During Breastfeeding Some unknown gunmen in Kaduna, on Friday, stormed the home of a 47-year-old security guard in the state and cleared all his family members, including him. The invaders, numbering about 20, unleashed terror on one Sunday Abin, who works with Robber Research Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture,…
In the build up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the National Association of Mbaise Students, NAMS, has endorsed the Chairman, Governing Board, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority, Chris Asoluka, as the preferred candidate for Imo East Owerri Senatorial zone. The group, in a press release jointly signed by the National President, Stanley…